30 September 2003
			
			
			
			
			September 2003, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada
			
			
				The Workshop was convened by David Kulka (Canada) and Lisa Hendrickson (USA) and the instructors were:
Dr. Nicolas Bez (Centre de Géostatistique, Fontainebleau, France), Dr. Reiner Schlitzer (Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany), and Jerry Black, Dr. Mark Simpson, and David Kulka (Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Canada). There were 28 participants from Canada, Denmark (Faroe Islands and Greenland), Estonia, the European Union (France, Germany, Portugal, and Spain), the Russian Federation, and the United States of America.